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Habor is a river in the Bible, about 617 km (383 miles) north-east of Jerusalem. The King James Version names it in 3 verses, from 2 Kings 17:6 to 1 Chronicles 5:26.
The united stream, or, according to others, with beautiful banks, the name of a river in Assyria, and also of the district through which it flowed (1 Chr. 5:26). There is a river called Khabur which rises in the central highlands of Kurdistan, and flows south-west till it falls into the Tigris, about 70 miles above Mosul. This was not, however, the Habor of Scripture.
There is another river of the same name (the Chaboras) which, after a course of about 200 miles, flows into the Euphrates at Karkesia, the ancient Circesium. This was, there can be little doubt, the ancient Habor.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Habor is a river about 617 km (383 miles) north-east of Jerusalem. BibleLectio shows it on a painted map of the Bible’s world, with every verse that names it.
The King James Version names Habor in 3 verses, in 2 books, from 2 Kings 17:6 to 1 Chronicles 5:26.
The verses that name Habor also name Hoshea, Manasseh and Tilgath-pilneser.